Chatelaine-bag or the like.



7 PATENTED FEB. 10, 1903. 0. GREENBAU'M & O. W. F. KROLL.

OHATELAINE BAG OR THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 10, 1902.

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OSCAR GREENBAUM, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., AND CHARLES W. F. KROLL, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNORS TO RAUDNITZ db POLLITZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A COPARTNERSI-IIP.

CHATELAlNE-BAG OR THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 7 20,131, dated February 10, 1903.

Application filed October 10, 1902. Serial No. 126,646- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, OSCAR GREENBAUM, of New York city, borough of Manhattan, New York, and CHARLES W. F. KROLL, of Jersey City, Hudson county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chatelaine-Bags or the Like, of which the following is a specification.

It is the object of our invention to dispense 10 with the necessity and disadvantages of turning a partly-made bag inside out and to construct a bag having the finished side of the leather exposed outwardly during the process of construction. To this end we cut the blanks for the sides of the bag and for the gusset and then place the gusset with its finished surface outwardly directly upon the finished surface of the sides at their edges with the finished surfaces of the sides exposed outwardly, and we then secure the gusset upon the sides at their edges either by stitching, cementing, or otherwise, whereby when the securing of the gusset to the sides is completed the finished surface of the sides and gussets will be exposed out- 2 5 wardly without the necessity of turning the bag inside out. By this means we avoid the danger of wrinkling and otherwise marring the finished surface of the bag, and thus an improved article is produced.

The invention also contemplates the novel details of improvement that will be more fully hereinafter set forth and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, wherein- Figure l is a side view of a chatelaine-bag embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a crosssection thereof on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail section of one of 40 the corners between a side and a gusset of the bag. 7

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The numeral 1 in the drawings indicates the sides of the bag, which may be in the form of a blank cut to the desired outline and preferably of leather, and 2 indicates a gusset which is secured at its edges to the edges of the sides 1 and extends between the latter,

forming the bottom and end walls of the bag.

faces of said inturned edges being exposed outwardly, and the edges ofthe gusset 2 are laid upon the same and secured thereto, preferably by stitches 3, passing through the inturned edges l and through the gusset, and this is done with the finished surfaces 1 and 2 of the sides 1 and of the gusset 2, respectively, exposed outwardly, it thus being seen that the inturned edges 1 of the sides lie substantially parallel to the plane of the gusset. The gusset may have its raw edges exposed outwardly and rubbed or burnished, or, if preferred, the edges 2 of the gusset may be turned inwardly and then placed against the inturned edges 1 of the sides, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3, the stitching 3 passing through the parts, as indicated. While the edges of the'gusset 2 may be placed directly against the inturned edges 1 of the sides 1, a welt or insertion 4 may be applied between the edges 1 of the sides and the gusset 2 'and the stitches 3 passed through the parts, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3.

With the sides 1 and the gusset 2 secured together in the manner described above while the finished surfaces are exposed outwardly it will be evident that the necessity for turning the bag is dispensed with, and thereby 8o danger of injuring or marring the finished surfaces ofthe stock is obviated and the cost of so turning and thereafter manipulating the bag, as heretofore practiced, to restore it to this proper condition along the edges and on the surfaces is dispensed with, and we are able to produce a better bag and at less cost for labor than the character of bags hereinabove mentioned, which are sewed together inside out and then turned, it being observed that while the stitching of the parts together proceeds, as illustrated in the drawings, raw

edges are presented inwardly, whereas in the turned bag referred to the raw edges are presented outwardly during the process of constructing the bag.

The mouth of the bag may be provided in usual or well-known manner with a suitable frame 5.

Having now described our invention, what we claim is- 1. A chatelaine-bag or the like comprising a pair of, sides and a gusset located between said sides and having its edges placed in line with the inturned substantially transversely extending edges of the sides and secured thereto, said sides and the gusset being first placed together with their finished surfaces exposed outwardly before being secured together, substantially as described.

2. A chatelaine-bag or the like comprising opposed sides having their finished surfaces exposed outwardly and having edges turned inwardly, substantially transverse to the plane of the sides, and a gusset having its finished surface exposed outwardly and its edges laid upon the outer finished surfaces of said inwardly-turned edges of the sides, said edges of the sides and the edges of the gusset being secured together while the finished surfaces of the sides and the gusset are exposed outwardly, whereby the bag is made without turning it inside out, substantially as described.

3. A chatelaine-bag or the like comprising opposed sides having their finished surfaces exposed outwardly and provided with inwardly-turned edges, extending substantially transverse to the plane of the sides, a gusset having its finished surfaces exposed outwardly and laid over said intu rned edges of the sides, a welt located between said gusset and the inturned edges of the sides, and means for securing the edges of the gusset, the welt, and the inturned edges of the sides together, the finished surfaces of the material thereof being exposed outwardly while the parts are being secured together without turning the bag inside out, substantially as described.

OSCAR GREENBAUM. CHAS. W. F. KROLL.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. SCHUMACHER, A. M. RHEINSTEIN. 

